Let's "Delve into Food!" first post - Introduction

This is the first post to my first blog and may be a bit stream-of-consciousness so please bear with me.

Who am I and why have I decided to blog about food?

I am a mother of 3 small children - 14 months, 3 years and 7 years old. I am married and live, albiet not my ideal setting, in a suburb in South Florida. Food, preparation of food, planning meals and food-related issues have become a sort of focal point for me, and this focus has been taking more shape as the years go on.

Part of the impetus for me to blog about food is frustration with the attitude in the United States, or at least the sliver of the United States that I see. We have lost touch with the essence of what it is that feeds us, makes us healthy, helps our children grow. Also food is a central part of a peaceful life in my opinion. The planning, preparation and socialization associated with meals whether they be at a daycare, a family mid-week dinner or a weekend celebration, is being lost as people are wrapped up in their work, their blackberry or just apathy or laziness.

Another reason for me to blog is simply to share and hopefully connect with fellow foodies out there.

I have a particular interest in our society's attitude about food when it comes to small children since I have three of them. However it is a problem that affects all ages and many facets of the U.S. today.

My hope with this blog is to share thoughts, recipes and ideas for how to better incorporate healthy eating into our lives. In addition I plan on 'delving' into food-related legislation, cultural norms, trends and facts as they relate to me and my life and hopefully to you and yours.

In addition to food and cooking in general, if you read my blog with any regularity you will probably come to see that I have also done a good amount of travelling, both for work and for fun. This is an aspect of life that to me is intertwined with food and that I hope to explore simultaneously.

Thanks for reading - - much more to come.

Let's Delve into Food!